Good  morning!

I find myself a year older today. Yesterday was my birthday. Last year I was living it up in Los Angeles with Robert the Husband, dining at Madeo with Don Rickles. And this year I’m covered in baby sick and utterly exhausted from the night feeds with Ned and Anaïs. But you know that I couldn’t be happier. It’s a wonderful thing to get birthday presents from your kids, even if they are only two months old. And I have to say they have pretty good taste when it comes to pressies. What a cool and unfathomable difference a year makes.

So who knows what this year will bring? What will I be writing about a day after my next birthday? Right now I have no idea and that is exciting in itself. I do know that due to the lack of sleep at nighttime I am very much enjoying lazing around during the day when I get the chance to. Looking at the pictures of my Mildred Summer Quilt I feel an intense desire to run back out to the paddock, dive on to the daybed and sleep all day with the sun on my face. Picking at the bowl of Strawberries by my side and reading the book that Ned bought me for my birthday.

I’m a huge fan of fiction but when it comes to gardening and cookbooks I love to read and absorb and get inspired. Sometimes I get so inspired when I’m flicking through my over-stocked shelves that I jump up from reading and immediately start on a new recipe or at least grab my notebook and begin to scribble furiously before the ideas leave me.

Baby Brain/Milk Mind/Preg Head is still my current state and I can often be found forgetting what I am saying IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE. So to have a notebook on hand is helpful as I’m capable of forgetting my own name at the moment.

Patchwork is something that can be seen all over my house. I love it. It revives me. It can be created in as many different shades/schemes/variations as you can get your head around and I love the fact that it can be made to suit a room/corner/item of furniture.

It is the twelfth of August and in a little over two weeks we shall be in the month of September. This scares me as I have needed this Summer a great deal for many, many reasons but I can’t sit on my daybed and command the leaves not to fall of the mercury not to drop. I have to make a decision that I shall relish the cosiness of the Autumn and Winter to come and revel in the fact that Robert and I go in to it with two more traveling companions. Both of whom are growing and smiling more and more each day. They are happy babies and that is all I could wish for.

I am becoming especially addicted to how I dress them. God help those kids as the Winter comes and the Christmas fancy dress outfits hit the shops. I can see them both spending a good part of December dressed as snowflakes and I can’t wait! But until then I have a lot to think about so lazing on the daybed may have to wait until the weekend. My house is appearing in the Christmas issue of a magazine so we’re getting all of the boxes out a few months early. To dress the house for Christmas is September is odd, I have done it before for another shoot at my old house. But that is the way the magazines work so it has to be done. We are also having a huge redesign of the website take place so if you visit the site over the next two weeks and are unable to get on to it or it looks a little weird you’ll know why.

But for now I’ll leave you with my dream resting place. My beautiful Mildred Summer Patchwork Quilt. Made the same way that my Springtime Quilt was made so do feel free to follow the pattern and make one for yourself.

I have nothing but babies, cooking, eating and two more episodes of Sherlock to watch this coming weekend so I’m bound to find my feet wrapped up in Mildred at least once over the next few days and for that I can be thankful. I may also find two other sets of teeny weeny feet wrapped up in it also if I’m lucky and they’ll agree to nap outside. 

Have a wonderful day. Thank you so very much for all of your birthday messages and for visiting me here on my site. I’m so glad that I get to be able to share all of this good stuff with you. I know as acutely as you all do how tough and grey life can be so I’m making it my mission to inject a bit of colour. Even if only comes in the form of pictures of Mildred on this website, they are there for you. And sent with love.

Cx

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